Drinking coffee can reduce the risk of heart attacks and strokes – provided you have it in the mornings.
Studies indicate that when you consume an espresso or flat white is more crucial for your well-being than the quantity you drink.
Consuming one to multiple cups before noon was associated with reducing the risk of heart and circulatory diseases by 31 percent, as opposed to individuals who drink coffee all day long.
Consuming coffee is associated with improved cardiac well-being and has been shown to decrease the likelihood of certain long-term ailments like type 2 diabetes.
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The initial research to analyze when people eat utilized information from over 40,000 American adults involved in investigations about health, nutrition, and lifestyle spanning ten years.
They discovered clear trends in coffee consumption, where 36 percent preferred it before noon, 16 percent had it spread out during the day, and half did not drink coffee at all.
Morning drinkers who consumed caffeinated beverages were 16 percent less likely to die from any cause compared to those who didn’t have the drinks. They also had a 31 percent lower likelihood of dying from heart-related diseases.
These advantages were observed in ‘moderate’ consumers who had two to three cups of coffee before noon as well as in ‘heavy’ consumers who drank more than three cups by that time.
According to the findings published in the European Heart Journal, those who consumed one cup or less still experienced benefits, though with a lesser reduction in risk.
There was no reduction in risk for all-day coffee drinkers when compared to those who never drink it.
Lead author Dr Lu Qi, from Tulane University in Louisiana, said: ‘Our findings indicate that it’s not just whether you drink coffee or how much you drink, but the time of day when you drink coffee that’s important.
‘We don’t typically give advice about timing in our dietary guidance, but perhaps we should be thinking about this in the future.’
The authors said drinking coffee after midday can disrupt the circadian rhythms, the body clock influencing daily cycles of physical, behavioural and mental changes.
Many all-day coffee drinkers may suffer from sleep disturbances due to it suppressing melatonin, an important sleep mediator in the brain. This, in turn, can lead to changes in cardiovascular risk factors such as inflammation and blood pressure.
Professor Thomas Lüscher, a consultant cardiologist at the Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospitals in London, said: ‘Overall, we must accept the now substantial evidence that coffee drinking, particularly in the morning hours, is likely to be healthy. Thus, drink your coffee, but do so in the morning.’
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